Combine yoghurt, garlic and 2tbs of chopped coriander in a bowl big enough to contain the aubergine.Preheat oven to 350F/180C/Gas 4. For older fruit, purge the bitter juices by cutting the aubergine into medium thick slices (about 12), arranging around the sides of a colander and salting generously Let stand for 1 hour, then pat dry. If using young ones, the flesh will not be bitter and these may simply be sliced and cooked. Bitinjen ou laban
(aubergine with yoghurt)Serves 4 as snackIngredients:2 small or 1 large aubergine2-3tbs olive oil1 large clove of garlic, minced3 tbs chopped coriander4tbs heaped thick Greek yoghurtPreparation: Peel aubergines. He will receive a bottle of Sancerre Rose Les Romaines 1992 Vacheron, an elegant Loire from Reid Wines of Hallatrow, near Bristol.
If that isn’t enough place-dropping, the dish is, he says, Sudanese. It is, however, a dish, which Mr Harrison ‘picked up while working as a school inspector in the Sultanate of Oman’. THE first of our summer dishes is from Mike Harrison, a British Council employee, who sent this recipe for aubergines from the heat of Latvia. InSkinParams = new Array();
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Ms Berlack admitted there had been ‘management problems’, but said the agency’s 6,000 members in Britain would continue to be supplied with introductions.
Together was featured on the Independent Personal page in April in a series of articles by Linda Joffee headed ‘Together? I’d rather be on my own’. The agency was also the subject of an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading. Westminster trading standards department received more than 100 complaints regarding Together’s alleged ‘hard-sell’ techniques. Susan Berlack, general manager, confirmed Together had ceased trading in London, but its franchised offices in Manchester and Winchester would remain in business. But last night the controversial US- based organisation revealed that it would continue to operate in the UK. TOGETHER, an introduction agency that has been the subject of widespread complaints, has closed its London operation, writes David Marsh. As other Scandinavian markets felt the draught, the Finnish central bank intervened to support the markka and held down short-term rates.American consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 4.1 per cent in July, in line with the forecasts of many economists but still fast enough for most to predict a rise in US interest rates next week.The consumer price index rose by 0.3 per cent for the second consecutive month, bringing the annual rate of inflation to 2.7 per cent so far this year.
Sources in the Middle East said the contract for up to eight patrol craft had gone to one of Vosper’s main competitors in France.
Kuwait has signed the deal with the French government, which is expected to subcontract the work to Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie, the Cherbourg-based company bidding to buy the Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside. This will cut out the need for an over-the- counter service to the motor trade.The nationwide network of offices, which register up to 2 million new vehicles a year at a cost of pounds 40m, will gradually be reduced and closed by 1997.The DVLA, an executive agency of the Department of Transport, said it was neither economical nor efficient to maintain the country-wide network.A further 500 staff dealing with specialist registrations such as trade plates will go, with their work given to agents or dealt with centrally at Swansea.The job losses announced earlier this week will take place over the next three years in a pounds 12m overhaul of the management of driver and licensing information.The Civil and Public Services Association condemned the move and predicted that it would result in a poorer service to the public.Barry Reamsbottom, general secretary, said: ‘This is an act of butchery on the part of a callous, uncaring government.’ He said the closures would encourage car tax dodgers. The companies are expected to be able to increase dividends annually by up to 10 per cent in real terms in spite of the price cuts.Cuts in some areas, including that served by Manweb, may be less than expected because the company does not charge as much as it could under its existing cap.(Graphs omitted)View from City Road, page 13Market Report, page 13. LEGAL & GENERAL is buying a majority stake in Group Development Capital Trust to transform the investment trust into a vehicle for financing buyouts and buy-ins, writes John Willcock. He said the action against KPMG would be pursued only if Ernst & Young continued with its proceedings..
The action is brought by the rival accountants Spicer & Oppenheim, formerly called Spicer & Pegler and now merged with Touche Ross, the country’s sixth-biggest accountancy practice.
KPMG audited the accounts of Atlantic Computers’ European subsidiary while Spicer audited the parent company. Regulators in other countries moved immediately to prevent the transfer of assets located abroad back to the parent company, in an effort to protect local policyholders.Confederation’s UK subsidiary, which has a total of 300,000 policyholders and pounds 5.4bn under management, is within days of announcing its sale to a big financial institution. The regulators said they would seek the immediate liquidation of the mutual life insurance company, Canada’s fifth-largest insurer, with assets of Cdollars 29bn ( pounds 14bn).
Winding-up petititons were filed in Ontario courts yesterday. But the sale of the UK subsidiary is expected to go ahead next week. Interim dividends for 1994 will be announced along with third-quarter results in November.The Unilever subsidiary Lever Brothers has been locked in a propaganda war in Europe with its rival Procter & Gamble over the pounds 100m launch of Persil Power, the concentrated soap powder that P&G claims damages clothing.Adverse publicity has led to a poor sales showing in the Netherlands, Switzerland and parts of Scandinavia but sales were strong in Britain and France.